Role Of Parents

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

Honor widows who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope; — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

He said to them, “Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son? — read the full passage →

In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces, — read the full passage →

Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? — read the full passage →

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, — read the full passage →

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples, — read the full passage →

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! — read the full passage →